Caught Our Eye

Consider the plight of today’s U.S. mail carrier. Your employer is slagged off in the media for being fiscally...

There’s an inspiring mania for trying new things that you find in national postal services that is really never...

Today, when we honor those who’ve served their country with dubious pre-Black Friday sales, Joe Sacco’s new book, “The...

People seem to take this time of year as a kind of open season on tempting us away from...

We’re no great fans of the zombie mania that’s taken over our culture (especially as some of us see...

Our thanks to Michael Jahn for scaring up the purchase details on an FB posting we threw out there...

When it comes to digitally printing covers, we could all use a wee pinch of pixie dust. Surely that...

However much the Internet and digital technology have streamlined our work and play, they have also removed a certain...

Prior to PaperSpecs’ recent free webinar about wine and spirit labels, we must admit that we’d never really looked...

Song sprite/franchise Katy Perry had her good intentions unceremoniously Koala’d by the Australian government recently when it nixed the...

We don’t care. We don’t care that this idea is ridiculous, bizarre, and something 99% of the population would...

We at PaperSpecs, always on the lookout for ways to fulfill the “public service” aspect of our brief, hereby...

Considering the number of down-and-outs swigging unabashedly from brown-paper bags throughout the land, you could be forgiven for not...

Friends, these things must be faced head on. We refer, of course, to the end-of-year behemoth known as (courage...

Somewhere in the land of book publishing, a beast is stirring, brushing off years of the print-on-demand laziness and...

A moment of respect for our paper mills, ladies and gentlemen. Sometimes it seems they are all that stands...

Like an Alsatian with an ear perpetually tuned to the sound of the can opener, creatives dutifully perk up...

We are absolute suckers for any attempt to do something different with the printed book, which is why we...

OK, this probably has as much to do with paper as a Twix bar has with nutrition (damned post-Halloween...

Hey, we’re as much a fan of modern spill-n’-kill horror flicks as the next person, but Halloween always strikes...

QR codes are like that weird little kid your parents were always trying to get you to play with...

Sometimes we think we know what it must be like to be a bloodhound. There you are curled up...

Well heck, this design will do just fine as a poster, but what will it look like when it’s...

Today Midland Paper, Packaging and Supplies respectfully suggested those looking for a quality C1S or C2S coated paper for...

Yes, our society has raised itself a bumper-crop of deny-themselves-nothing rotundities, but even we had to bristle a little...

Dare to put your boldest colors forward with Cascades Enviro Jet uncoated fine paper, the only 100% post-consumer fiber...

Sweden’s Arctic Paper sprung its three-item AP-Tec portfolio on the public this month, all taking advantage of its Mirroblade...

In Japan, where there are several degrees of formality and famously the “nail that sticks up is hammered down,”...

Quite frankly this is what it takes to get us to care a printer’s pica about the 3D-printing craze currently...